Red Hat Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Red Hat
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 71 115
Rank change year-on-year -38 +44 +46
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 13 42 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.71% 2.22% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 1.34% 4.66% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 8
10th Percentile £465 £570 -
25th Percentile £517 £575 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £630 £360
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +75.00% -28.00%
75th Percentile £577 £688 £584
90th Percentile £581 £725 £718
England median daily rate £513 £525 £598
% change year-on-year -2.38% -12.13% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.22 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.38% +41.37% -32.26%

All Vendors
West Midlands

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 967 902 1,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 52.50% 47.75% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 586 670
10th Percentile £244 £213 £219
25th Percentile £386 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £584 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 14 20
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.48 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.13 £17.32 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.81 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% +25.27% +32.49%
75th Percentile £36.25 £42.88 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.63 £43.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.65%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the West Midlands

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire -20 5 £581 -2.56%
Birmingham 0 3 £476 - 1
Solihull - 2 £569 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 1
Shropshire - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £495 -
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) DKIM
2 5 (38.46%) DMARC
2 5 (38.46%) Internet
2 5 (38.46%) SMTP
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) SSH
4 1 (7.69%) SSL
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Parquet
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) SonarQube
1 3 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Poetry
2 2 (15.38%) PyCharm
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (7.69%) MLflow
3 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (15.38%) Flask
2 2 (15.38%) NumPy
2 2 (15.38%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
4 1 (7.69%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) Validation
2 2 (15.38%) Coaching
2 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
2 2 (15.38%) Dependency Management
2 2 (15.38%) High Availability
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Build Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.69%) ETL
3 1 (7.69%) ITSM
3 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.69%) Memory Management
3 1 (7.69%) Service Management
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Dovecot
1 5 (38.46%) Postfix
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Argo
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Istio
4 1 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Broadcom
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.69%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Veeam